Nick Krecklow
Senior software engineer creating fun through technology at Hypixel Studios
- live services infrastructure
- game security/anticheat
- multiplayer networking
- backend development
Contact Links
Tech
- C, C++
- Go
- Java
- FASTBuild, CMake
- FreeBSD
Personal Projects
aka the code I write when I'm not working on backend infrastructure, protecting gameplay, or cross-platform integration.
Light Sequencing
I enjoy experimenting with light sequencing hardware/software/protocols/standards (e.g. DMX, xLights and Light-O-Rama/LOR). I have published documentation for the fseq 2.x file format used by xLights, as well as a compatible single-file-header C99 library (libtinyfseq). I reverse-engineered chunks of the LOR serial control protocol, and developed a library (liblorproto) for interacting with it.
My playback program, fplayer, ties all these offerings together into a single tool for the playback of an xLights/fseq 2.x sequence on Light-O-Rama hardware from Windows, macOS, Linux or FreeBSD.
Minetrack
A vestige of my work on the Hypixel Network, Minetrack has spent almost a decade collecting Minecraft multiplayer player count statistics. I run the "official instances" at minetrack.me & bedrock.minetrack.me, but the software itself is open-source. The historical data it collects is published into the public domain and available via data.minetrack.me.
Extra Utilities
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fsautoproc
CLI utility for automating file transformations and dependency creation
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watermarker
CLI utility for bulk image bundling and PDF watermarking
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